It is amazing to see the quantity of plugins that are available for WordPress; so far, I’ve found a plugin for every idea that I’ve had for this blog, so these are the links of each one of them:
Another worth mentioning is Gengo for localizing (translating) your pages and posts; I have played with it and it is simply awesome!
Finally, I also add here a “plugin” in the generic sense – since it is not a WordPress plugin, but a JavaScript library that can be used in any website: dp.SyntaxHighlighter that can be used to highlight the syntax of code shown in blog posts… really simple to use and with great capabilities (I’ve already mentioned it before).
It allows you to do things like this:
[source:sql]
SELECT TOP 10
FirstName,
LastName,
Email,
–SUBSTRING(Phone, 2, 3) AS CityCode,
SUBSTRING(Phone, 7, 8 ) AS PhoneNumber,
upper(LanguagePref) AS Language,
Address1,
UpdatedOn AS CreatedOn
FROM
profiles
WHERE
— Exclude all test emails
Email NOT LIKE ‘%test%’
AND Email NOT LIKE ‘%asdf%’
ORDER BY
UpdatedOn DESC
[/source]
Particularly, the WP Unformatted plugin must be installed and enabled to use dp.SyntaxHighlighter, since otherwise WordPress “reformats” the text of the posting, and this affects the inserted code. To use WP Unformatted, just create your post and add two custom fields: “sandpaper = 1″ and “sponge = 1″, and that’s it! Your code will appear correctly formatted.
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Update, February 20th 2007: Using the SyntaxHighlighter Plugin from Erik Range makes WP Unformatted unnecessary! Thanks Erik!
